HeyJaredSTATION DARK
STATION DARK is a serial gothic set in the surreal Midwest. If you like shortwave radio, small town horror, and voices in the wires, this is for you.
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- Aug 2, 2026
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- Jul 3, 2026
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SMOKE & MIRRORS #12: Order is Mercy (opens the original)
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Welcome to Ashford RowPARLOR TRICKS # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, <a href="https://stationdark.substack.com/p/parlor-tricks-6-
Sea Harvest (opens the original)
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This short story shares no ties to STATION DARK or PARLOR TRICKS (except its author), but it sung to me. So I wrote it.Sea HarvestRugar stomped the last of the briny muck from his boots, sending trembles through the old timber of his home. “Wipe your feet.”The new guy, Tom, did what he was told. “Thanks for picking me up. Came here looking for work, you know, and-”“Have a seat.” Rugar gestured to the couch in the cramped living room, which shared the space with a galley kitchen where Rugar’s wif
PARLOR TRICKS: Making Room (opens the original)
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Welcome to Ashford RowPARLOR TRICKS # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, <a href="https://stationdark.substack.com/p/parlor-tricks-6-
FIELD NOTES: On What We Carry (opens the original)
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Loss has a curious way of changing shape over time.At first, it arrives as absence. A chair left empty. A familiar voice that no longer calls out. A house that feels too quiet. We experience loss as something taken from us, and our instinct is to hold tighter to whatever scraps remain. We revisit old photographs, retrace familiar roads, tell the same stories again and again, hoping memory might preserve some essence of what we once held.There is goodness in that instinct. Memory is one of the wa
THE REMNANTS: The Long Way Home (opens the original)
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What came before…Something happened in this town. Nobody agrees exactly what it was. Some blame contaminated groundwater or industrial runoff. Others speak quietly about voices carried through wires or impossible growths beneath houses. Whatever happened, the worst of it eventually ended. Life returned to normal.Yet something remained behind. Traces. Scars. A refrigerator developing unusual habits. A forgotten object appearing where it should not. A place acquiring a reputation nobody can quite
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